Smashing the Glass Guitar

{two bibliographies}

AnNoTAteD biBliOgRapHy
[Note: Pink = book in print
Green = Article online
Blue = other source type.
*Star = I currently have access to this source.
≠Unequal sign = I do not yet have access.]

*Baitz, Alison. "Venus Zine: The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time." Venus Zine: { women in music, fashion, culture, d.i.y. }. N.p., 1 Mar. 2008. Web. 18 Feb. 2011. <http://www.venuszine.com/articles/music/2575/The_Greatest_Female_Guitarists_of_All_Time>.
Short articles on the greatest female guitarists. Ever. (A response to Rolling Stone's 2003 "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," which included only two women: Joan Jett and Joni Mitchell.) I'll compare and contrast this with the GQ article, perhaps, to see how media coverage may differ depending on the intended audience.

*Carpenter, Susan. "Sex, Leather, Rock'n'Roll: It's a Matter of Reputation." Los Angeles Times 6 Aug. 2006. SIRS Knowledge Source. Web. 27 Feb. 2011.

*Cooper, B. Lee. "Women's studies and popular music stereotypes." Popular Music and Society 23.4 (1999): 31. SIRS Knowledge Source. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.
Article analyzing the depiction of women in popular music. Includes a list of songs that portray women in various, usually stereotypical ways.

≠Cooper, Sarah. Girls! Girls! Girls!: essays on women and music. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Print.
A collection of essays that would be good to get my hands on, as it apparently "addresses some of the most provocative and challenging issues concerning women's active involvement in and relationship to music" including rock music. (They have this at the Boston Public Library)

*Feigenbaum, Anna. “'Some Guy Designed This Room I'm Standing in': Marking Gender in Press Coverage of Ani DiFranco.” Popular Music. Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 37-56. Cambridge University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3877593

*Gaar, Gillian G.. She's a rebel: the history of women in rock & roll. Expanded Second Edition ed. Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press, 1992. Print. Comprehensive history of women in rock music from the 1950s to the early 2000s.
Profiles ~100 artists and analyzes changes in the American music industry and how they have impacted female musicians' careers. I'll use this for lots of background info, and specific info about bands. I'll focus more on the later chapters in my reading. I think this will be one of my best sources.

*Gaines, Donna. “The original riot grrrl.” Salon.com, Nov. 2006.
Willis, Ellen. “Janis Joplin.” Rolling Stone, 1976.
Ellen Willis was a feminist rock critic whose article on Janis Joplin provides insight into gender roles in the 1960s, and although I'm focusing on the '80s, '90s and '00s, this gives my research context and background.

*Gill, Chris. "Joan Jett: the original riot grrrl keeps it pure." Guitar Player 12 Oct. 1994: 10. General OneFile. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.
Short interview with Joan Jett about her music and contemporary women rockers.

*Green, Shannon L.. "Videos on Women in Popular Music, review by Shannon L. Green, Feminist Collections 23(2)." Women's Studies Librarian's Office, University of Wisconsin System. N.p., 23 May 2002. Web. 10 Mar. 2011. <http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/fc/fcgreenpop.htm>.This review of five relatively unknown documentaries gave me a few great options for further research. Especially "Righteous Babes" and "Punk Pretty." It gave me a nice knowledge base in terms of the connections between feminism and popular (esp. rock) music.
*Groce, Stephen B., and Margaret Cooper. "Just Me and the Boys? Women in Local-Level Rock and Roll." Gender and Society 4.2 (1990): 220-229. JSTOR. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.
This article contains interviews with 15 women in local-level bands in two American cities (in the early '90s) and "explores audiences' reactions and responses to them as performers and their interactions with other band members."

*Guderman, Jennifer. "Rocking Gender: Stereotype and Subversion Among Female Pop Musicians." Faculty Seminar series of Commencement 2010. Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University, Nashville. 19 May 2011. Lecture.
This is amazing - an hour-long lecture about femininity and masculinity in popular music, and women musicians' responses to pressure to present themselves a certain way. "Whether attempting to conform to idealized visions of womanhood, or defying convention by appropriating masculine traits or poking ironic fun at feminine stereotypes, women have navigated all sorts of pressures in order to make their voices heard in rock."

*Kot, Greg. "Sleater-Kinney Was Well Equipped to Open Doors in Women's Rock." Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL). Aug. 7 2006: n.p. SIRS Renaissance. Web. 27 Feb 2011.
Good article on Sleater-Kinney, an important band in the Riot Grrrl Movement of the 1990s.

*Sherman, Dale. Women in rock: 20th century rock and roll. Burlington, Ont.: Collector's Guide Pub., 2001. Print.
Short profiles on 50 female musicians along with about a dozen bands. This will provide me with a little bit of info on a lot of people, and will be good to read before I decide who to focus on.

*"The 25 Sexiest Women In Rock." GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly 10 Oct. 2010: 175. General OneFile. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.
Brief profiles of women rockers that GQ fancies. (Compare and contrast this with the Venus Zine article.)

NoN-aNnOtAteD biBliOgRapHyArticles, etc. on Riot Grrrl bands...Sleater-Kinney